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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there was really a teacher shortage, [b]teachers should trade tenure protections for higher pay[/b]. No district is going to needlessly fire a good teacher if there's a shortage, and Republicans would probably get behind it, particularly if it included a pay-for-performance element.[/quote]

That has not worked well for teachers in private schools or charters. A friend taught at a charter in another city. She was warned that the board liked to cycle out even good teachers every three years so no one cost too much. [/quote]

That only works if there's not a shortage.[/quote]

The part that I'll add to this is that it doesn't make sense that teachers with experience get paid substantially more than new teachers. An MCPS teacher can nearly double their salary in real dollars over their career. Is a teacher with 20 years of experience really twice as efficient? Can they teach twice as many kids, or have them learn twice as much?

Some increase makes sense, but definitely not anything close to 2x.  That's the result of the teachers unions screwing over new teachers. Another example of boomers sticking it to millennials and generation Xers.[/quote]

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